Biography Category
( krä´, k´r ) (KEY) , city (1984 pop. 867,459), capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It is Ghana’s largest city and its administrativ...
(ôt´ väg´n r) (KEY) , 1841–1918, Austrian architect. A structural rationalism was exhibited in his stations for the Vienna city railroad, built...
(bäldäs-sä´r p r t´ts ) (KEY) , 1481–1536, Italian architect and painter of the High Renaissance and mannerist periods. His outstanding archit...
(both: häns b rk´m r) (KEY) , 1473–1531, German engraver, woodcut designer, and painter. Having learned woodcutting from Schongauer, he settled i...
in speech, emphasis given a particular sound, called prosodic systems in linguistics. There are three basic accentual methods: stress, tone, and lengt...
( ´kr ks) (KEY) [from the Bayer designation Crucis], brightest star in the constellation Crux (Southern Cross); 1992 position R.A. 12h26.2m, Dec. -...